The world wide vegan bake sale is quickly approaching and I would love to have one in the central CT area, but don't know any other local vegans who could help me out, or where to hold the bake sale. I'm thinking of raising the money for Our Companions, a no-kill animal sanctuary in Bloomfield, CT. But I'm open to other ideas as well.

I want to! I was actually just searching for the site so I could send it to some animal rights types at UHa... I've wanted to do the bake sale for years, but didn't know any other vegans to do it with. If you want to do one, I'm totally in.

Awesome! do you have any ideas on where we can hold it cuz I'm kind of at a total loss :(

Not a clue.

I gave my e-mail address to a veg group leafletting on campus awhile back, and she just sent me and three other students an e-mail. So I was going to see if any of them were interested, and if yes hold it on UHa campus. Mostly because that's the best idea I could come up with.

Well sounds like a good plan to me! Hopefully they respond! In the mean time I think I'll contact the shelter asking permission to use their name and let them know we went to raise money for them and tell them about the bake sale etc. Unless there's another org you had in mind or you wanted to do something for Japan instead? That was my only other idea. or split it 50/50 ?

I had no ideas about a cause. Both of those sounds like great ideas to me... I'm most excited about raising awareness about the wonders of veganism to young people, to tell you the truth. As long as the money goes somewhere that will use it for good, I'm cool.

Alright I've emailed the shelter, and I emailed my local park and rec dept asking if they had any location ideas for a bake sale. I was also thinking of farmer's markets as an option but the only one around that's up and running during the "official" bake sale week is the billing's forge one in hartford, so I might email them too and see if we could possibly have it there. Nothing else starts til may or june.

Ha yeahh I'm kinda just freaking out as the dates of the bake sale are quickly approaching! eep! But the shelter emailed me back immediately saying they would love to be involved in the bake sale, and sent me an attachment with their logo to use on any of our flyers and said to let them know the date and location so they could promote it on their website! Altho they offered no ideas for a location either.... Perhaps if you haven't heard from any of the veg group people yet you could just contact UHa directly and see if we could have the bake sale somewhere on campus anyway?

> Hi Jessie...> Sorry we missed you on Monday. We had great outreach, and> a few more names and email addresses!> I believe we may have an interest in doing something in> April or May, for a vegan bake sale fundraiser.> I will need to check with my group. And we would need to> decide on a location.> If my group becomes involved, we would most likely want to> split the proceeds between our group ( to cover gas,> since we travel to college campuses all over Ct! And some> $ to Vegan Outreach, the national group that supplies us> with literature. Have any one else interested? Karen

What do you think? I'm going to write back to her about the shelter. And we could totally do it on UHa campus... I'm a student there, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Yeah... I don't feel so good about that either. I don't really know anyone in this group, nor am I involved with them... I understand why they want to put part of the funds towards their own organization if they put on a fundraiser. How do you feel about it? I'd be alright with doing our own bakesale for the no-kill shelter or Japan or both. I'm more interested in spreading the awesomeness of veganism than where the money ends up, to tell the truth.

well i just emailed MCC as a backup plan the other day, and they actually responded very quickly giving me info on what to do, so I'd just have to fill out some forms and pick a day (they can only have vendors on wednesdays) the only downside is we'd have to pay for a table, but it's half price since we're non-profit, so $62.50.

manchester community college! I used to go there so it's like the only other place I could think of as a neutral area to bake sale and still reach lots of young adults. I already sent in the forms and money to secure a date cuz i got panicky since its getting so close to bake sale week, even tho I guess it could extend beyond that it probably doesnt matter. But I haven't gotten a response back as to what day we'd get. And i can always cancel that if Uha works out instead.

The university continues to be evasive, so I got in touch with a friend who does a lot of fundraising on campus. She said "you actually don't need to notify or ask permission of anyone unless you are doing it in a dining facility (since you could take away their business with your food depending on what kind of food you have. Bake sales are fine, hot chocolate/coffee is not)."

Just looked at a calendar and had a wake-up call as to (a) how soon this is and (b) that I fly to LA next weekend, so the best day for me would be next Friday morning (May 6th). Let me know what you think. Sorry... my life kind of got a way with me this month, and I'm just now catching up with reality.

That's alright! well I kinda already finalized things with doing it at MCC since I hadn't heard from you, only problem is the date I got is Wednesday May 4, but it seems you won't even be in the state that day :( You could always help promote it though! I made a facebook page just now for the event you can invite people to it! http://on.fb.me/gR50IT

Alright so I'm figuring out what I'm going to be baking for the sale and just wanted to see what you wanted to make so we don't make the same stuff! I also have no idea as far as amount of product to bake but I guess we'll just wing it. So far I'm planning on making croissants, maybe two kinds of cookies, and 3 kinds of cupcakes (1 GF kind). maybe brownies and muffins as well?